S3E4 - Johnny Got His Gun / Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Episode Notes

S3 E4: Johnny Got His Gun / Pale Horse, Pale Rider


*TW: Discussion of severe war wounds and suicide


Anna shares her expertise in heavy metal; Rachel describes a book
as “peace-y”; Frank complains about Dalton Trumbo’s unwillingness
to insert actual communist propaganda into his most explicitly
political movie; we all think the 1939 novel version of Johnny
Got His Gun is a landmark work, but splitting hairs on the value
of other examples of the disjunctive post/modernist form is more
difficult.


Watch Frank’s video giving an eco-materialist approach to these
novels for ASLE 2021 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-23807y9lQ8


WORKS CITED:


Johnny Got His Gun. Dir. Dalton Trumbo. Writ. Dalton Trumbo &
Louis Buñuel. Perf. Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt,
Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Diane Varsi. World
Entertainment, 1971.


Metalallica. “One.” 1989.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6vqeL-ysI


Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Modern Library,
1939.


Trumbo, Dalton. Johnny Got His Gun Lippincott, 1939. Bantam,
1989.


Further Reading & Listening:


Morton, Timothy. Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People.
Verso, 2017.


Outka, Elizabeth. Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and
Interwar Literature. Columbia UP, 2020.


Painter, Mark. The History of the Twentieth Century. Ep. 171-172:
“Pale Horse, Pale Rider.” Oct. 2019.
https://historyofthetwentiethcentury.com/2019/10/


The Pointless Crew: Frank Fucile (he/him/his) – Lit & Theory,
Film & Media, Genre, Enviro & Tech Studies // Rachel
Hamele (she/her/hers) – History, Humanities, Queer Studies,
Fandoms // Anna Wendorff (she/her/hers) – Communications,
Rhetorics of Sci & Tech, Feminism // Madalyn McCabe
(she/her/hers) – Sound Editing, European Studies


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MUSIC: Bad Brains – “F.V.K.” Metalallica – “One”


ART: Still from Johnny Got His Gun, feat. Timothy Bottoms &
Diane Varsi, dir. Dalton Trumbo (World, 1971)